bad bosses

Employee gets yelled at for being 8 minutes late, quits when boss tries to take away their lunch break: 'I haven't gone back'

Ally Perry

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Employee is forced by management to clock out earlier than she should, as she’s not doing anything, when she complained: ‘They respond with “No, I’ll fire you.” I ended up clocking out early because I didn’t want to take the risk.’

María Cetra

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Employee gets reprimanded for ending their shift as soon as it ends, but nothing happens when other employees start their shift late every day: 'Am I wrong for thinking the real problem is the people who are always coming in late'.

María Cetra

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Boss hints that coworker is about to be fired, coworker is racked with guilt wondering if they should say something: 'She just bought a new home'

JR Atkinson

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Boss chews out employee for not inviting their coworkers to their birthday brunch: 'Haha are you joking'

JR Atkinson

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Company forbids laid-off employee from entering the office to return his work laptop because he brought his 2-year-old son with him: ' There was no one at home to take care of him.'

Emmy Pratt

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Employees reveal the wildest times a former employer didn't listen to their warnings: 'The company was reduced to 1/20th the size'

Ally Perry

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Employee Claims He ‘Can’t Trust’ New Coworker Because She Pushes Back on His Instructions

JR Atkinson

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Company mandates weekly 15-minute "gratitude circles": 'I told my manager privately that I think the whole thing is counterproductive'

JR Atkinson

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20-year-old employee decides to play a little prank on his older coworker Bob, only to get himself a 3-day suspension he was actually grateful for: ‘I have actually already left Town. I am over an hour away and won’t be turning around.’

María Cetra

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22-year-old assistant trains intern on easy tasks, during a phone call, her boss interrupts her, she takes revenge by n going to a volunteering event: 'I explained that I was actively helping a client and would hand the phone over as soon as I finished'

María Cetra

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26-year-old employee was told by a boss that he has to have a doctor's note to miss work when he's sick, so he started to get 4 days' rest instead: 'They can give me the 1 or 2 days I ask for, or they can give me the week the doc gives me.'

María Cetra

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Manager ignores employee's written requests, then blames everyone else for work mistakes, leading employee to confront him in front of client: ‘I stopped letting vague instructions become my responsibility’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'Quitting and not regretting it': Coffee shop manager takes employee off schedule after claiming they're not “excited to work”, employee resigns immediately

Bar Mor Hazut

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Remote employee discovers that the new hire makes 25k more for the same position, so he prepared a presentation to get a raise: ‘Here's what I'm doing and here's what the market and my own scope say it's worth’

María Cetra

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‘Your job is not to coach people’: Boss tells front desk employee to stop helping customers with their mistakes, regrets it when chaos ensues with incorrectly filed forms

Giuliana Tiscioni

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